Book: Top 37 Diabetic Recipes
Being a diabetic sadly isn’t an easy condition to live with. Many people however incorrectly assume that since you are diabetic you need to eat boring and bland foods.
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Lifestyle & Diet
Aerobic Exercise Cuts Kids’ Diabetes Risk: Study
Getting plenty of aerobic exercise can help overweight children reduce their risk of diabetes, according to a new study.
Risk of developing diabetes higher in neighborhoods that aren’t walk-friendly
Whether your neighbourhood is conducive to walking could determine your risk for developing diabetes, according to a new study by researchers at St. Michael’s Hospital and the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences.
Diabetics: Everything in Moderation
If you ever have talked with a dietitian about food (and why wouldn’t you?), you’ve likely heard him say one or both of these famous catchphrases: “All foods can fit” or “everything in moderation.”
Beans Curb Risk of Metabolic Syndrome in Obese People
Consuming a large amount of dried beans, peas and lentils might stave off metabolic syndrome.
Holiday Cheesecake With Assorted Toppings For Diabetics
For some people, a holiday party is not complete without dessert. Modifying your traditional holiday dessert recipes to make them lower in carbohydrate and sugar may take some practice.
Keep diabetes and heart disease at bay: Cut down on red meat
Red meat may be a delicious for some, but lowering your consumption of the delicacy will not only help reduce the risk of heart disease and diabetes, it also shrinks your carbon foot print by 12%.
DiabetesDaily: How to Read Nutrition Labels.
It never occurred to me that I needed to be cognizant of nutrition labels, and the accompanying ingredients list, until I began to make nutrition a bigger priority in my life with type 2 diabetes.
Viral hepatitis: The “Diabetes-Curious” and self-inkers at risk
Diabetes curiosity refers to those who use someone else’s lancet and glucose meter diabetes testing devices to prick themselves to test their own blood sugar levels.
Coenzyme Q10 may protect against heart disease in type 2 diabetes patients
Taking Coenzyme Q10 supplements may help prevent heart disease in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus, according to a study most recently published in Diabetologia. The study was conducted in an animal model.
DiabetesHealth: Peanut Butter Cups for Diabetics
There is a taste explosion when one bites into one of these substantial treats. When Halloween candy beckons, these delicious candies can keep one from indulging.
DiabetesHealth: Need We Fear Exercise-induced Cardiac Arrest?
The media abounds with stories about the sudden collapse and death of athletes whom we assumed were in the best of health. When such cases occur, we may become concerned about exercising ourselves.
Genetic Diabetes Counseling May Not Inspire Change
Counseling people about their personal risk of diabetes based on their genes may not motivate them to take steps to prevent the blood sugar disease, a new study suggests.
Fascinating Fat Facts and Findings (Part 2)
Fat seems to be both friend and foe, so having a better understanding of how it behaves in the body, and why some fat is good and some is not so good, can help us (hopefully) be healthier all around. So continuing from last week, it’s back to more “fat facts.”
Diet vs. Exercise
Which one results in a higher number of calories burned?
Low cost ways to add more fruits & vegetables to your diet
It’s Fruits & Veggies—More Matters Month! Here are easy, low cost ways to add more fruits & vegetables to your diet
Mayo Clinic Says Simple Lifestyle Changes Can Forestall Type 2
The Mayo Clinic Health Letter for August 2012 has published three lifestyle changes that could stave off the progression of prediabetes to full-blown type 2 diabetes.
Weight training may help prevent diabetes
THE QUESTION Being physically active has been shown to help prevent Type 2 diabetes. Might that include doing weight training?
Is limiting carbohydrates really safe? Japan Diabetes Association issues warning
While such diets have proven highly effective, medical experts have voiced concern about the potential adverse health effects in the long term.
DiabetesHealth: Why Do We Crave Carbohydrates?
We’ve all heard a lot of discussion about low carbohydrate diets and whether they are effective for weight loss and blood sugar control.. What most of us do not understand, however, is how diabetes affects the way that we process carbs.